January 25, 2017
A paper from the groups of Dr. Yajie Dong, Dr. Shin-Tson Wu and Dr. Andre J. Gesquiere, titled “Ultrastable, Highly Luminescent Organic-Inorganic Perovskite – Polymer Composite Films”, has been published by Advanced Materials.
Graduate student Hao Chen’s poster “High Efficacy, High Color Quality Hybrid White OLEDs Incorporating Red Quantum Dots with Narrow Emission Bands” has been selected as a winner of the Student Poster Competition of the 2017 DOE Solid state lighting (SSL) R&D workshop and he was invited to present on this topic at Long Beach, CA.
Dr. Dong has been invited to join Emissive Display (EMD) subcommittee of Display Week 2017 Technical Program Committee.
Beatriz Jimenez, an EE undergraduate student from Dr. Chanda’s group working on IR spectroscopy was selected for the SURF Program, a summer research scholarship The SURF program entails an 8 – 10 week Summer Undergraduate Researchexperience at the University of Florida. Prospective Ph.D. students for the University of Florida for the fall 2018 termwill be…
Gowan Co. has licensed an anti-fungal and anti-bacterial formula developed by Dr. Santra’s lab, the first agreement of its kind for UCF. The College of Science News highlighted the achievment, summarized below: Gowan Co. recently signed an agreement with the University of Central Floridato obtain exclusive rights to the anti-fungal and anti-bacterial formulationdeveloped by researcher…
January 20, 2017
A UCF researcher has combined cutting-edge nanoscience with a magnetic phenomenon discovered more than 170 years ago to create a method for speedy medical tests. The discovery, if commercialized, could lead to faster test results for HIV, Lyme disease, syphilis, rotavirus and other infectious conditions. Putnam’s team coated nanoparticles with the antibody to BSA, or…
January 19, 2017
The ENERGY SMART textile is highlighted among the “innovations” in the current issue of prestigious “Foreign Policy” magazine (owned by Washington Post company). The ENERGY SMART textile is being developed by Dr. Thomas’ research group Read the full article here Or here
January 9, 2017
Dr. Eric Jung’s work has been featured on the cover of ACS Nano. The cover article features additional coverage of Dr. Jung’s Core/Shell Nanowire Supercapacitor research. More specifically, the article details a new type of “one-body” supercapacitors has been developed by chemically converting flexible tungsten foils to one-dimensional (1D) nanowires with conformal two-dimensional (2D) tungsten…
December 21, 2016
Tyler Maxwell, a Ph.D. student in Associate Professor Swadeshmukul Santra’s lab in the Chemsitry Department at UCF, has been named Outstanding Graduate Student by the Orlando section of the American Chemical Society (ACS).Maxwell was nominated by Associate Professor and collaborator Andre Gesquiere for his educational outreach and in applying discoveries in the lab to start…
December 12, 2016
Jinan Deng, Don Nadun Kuruppumullage, Alireza Hajibagheri, and Ming Miao have been selected for the Dissertation Completion Fellowship, a $10,000 award plus tuition support. These four students were nominated by Dr. Jiyu Fang, Dr. Olusegun J. Ilegbusi, Dr. Gita Sukthankar, and Dr. Juin J. Liou, respectively. Jinan Deng, a student in the Materials Science and…